Chad Hesse Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Beachwood, Ohio

Currently serve as chief and sole in-house counsel to Resilience Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in distressed and other special-situation platform businesses, and its 20+ portfolio companies. Provide leadership support across a broad range of industries, including aviation & aerospace, printing, industrial manufacturing, telecommunications, apparel, consumer goods, minerals & mining, capital equipment, medical equipment, professional staffing and outsourced manufacturing.As a member of the Investment Committee, make strategic contributions and provide guidance on questions relating to legal, compliance, investment criteria and disclosure documentation.Lead all legal aspects of robust M&A activity involving platform and bolt-on acquisitions, collaborations and divestitures in the U.S., and in Canada, Hong Kong, Israel and the U.K.Additional accomplishments in this role include:▪️ Resolving various litigation claims totaling $11M+ in savings to firm’s portfolio companies.▪️ Reducing external legal spend each year amidst consistent increase in the number of portfolio companies.▪️ Successfully resolving an SEC/OCIE enforcement action and creating enhanced compliance policies and procedures to mitigate future risk and facilitate growth. ▪️ Drafting and/or reviewing debt and equity financing offerings and credit facilities at the fund, firm and portfolio-company levels.▪️ Managing state/local shutdowns involving portfolio companies, CARES Act funding requests, investor communications, employment guidelines and other evolving issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.

North Canton, Ohio

Stepped into new leadership role following CEO succession. Launched global commercial approval process and escalation matrix, providing visibility to all commercial transactions and ensuring effective compliance.

North Canton, Ohio

As General Counsel, headed legal strategy and decision-making for global legal and compliance team. Also served as Corporate Secretary, handling all board governance and coordinating board and committee meetings.Built and led an internal global team of 23 in the US, APAC, EMEA and LATAM, and selected, hired and oversaw external counsel worldwide.Select accomplishments include:▪️ As a key leadership team member, collaboratively crafting and executing a multi-year turnaround plan (Diebold 2.0), pivoting the company from its long-standing manufacturing business to a software and services-led model. ▪️ Successfully resolving significant regulatory matters (at $200M+ less than total potential exposure) and commercial disputes, including a global FCPA investigation by the DOJ and SEC, a securities class action and related derivative action, a significant tax controversy in Brazil and a multi-million dollar customs dispute in Thailand.▪️ Negotiating the $250M acquisition of an India-based financial services company. ▪️ Overhauling the patent/trademark application and renewal process for an intellectual property portfolio of 1,500+ patents and trademarks, reducing related legal expense by 5+% year over year.▪️ Initiating a strategy to aggressively defend the company’s intellectual property from infringers and achieving $3.5M+ in settlements and royalties over a two-year period.▪️ Mentoring regional VPs to prioritize business pain points and serve as strategic advisors.▪️ Modernizing the legal department and upgrading legal budget management.

North Canton, Ohio

Promoted during two mission-critical events: a hostile takeover attempt by United Technologies Corporation and a comprehensive, multi-year earnings restatement (2003 to Q1 2007). Served on the cross-functional team that prepared and filed the restated financial statements with the SEC (September 2008) and the leadership team that ultimately defended the company from the takeover attempt (October 2008). Continued to serve as corporate generalist with a focus on commercial transactions, M&A and SEC filings. Provided corporate legal support to new legal team in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Brazil and was primary legal lead on acquisitions in Australia, Chile and Mexico and divestitures of the company's operations in Argentina.As Corporate Secretary, I instituted a number of improvement initiatives and cost-saving measures, including:▪️ Implementing a board-portal and overhauling the board and committee agenda-setting process, establishing standardized meeting minutes to ensure consistent disclosure of relevant board-related discussions while minimizing potential exposure. ▪️ Spearheading the move to a “notice-and-access” model for annual proxy statements and consolidating all external proxy vendors, streamlining the annual shareholder meeting process and saving $150K+ per year.Also served, by the appointment of the CEO, as a board member of Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary) to position that company for sale.As Deputy General Counsel, advised senior management and functional and global business leaders on broad range of issues, including:▪️ Conducting due diligence and preparing and negotiating definitive documentation for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures in 20+ countries, and leading legal integration support for all M&A activity.▪️ Preparing and/or reviewing securities law filings (Forms 10-K/10-Q/8-K and Section 16).

North Canton, Ohio

Initially hired as one of only four attorneys. Served as a corporate generalist in charge of:▪️ mergers & acquisitions (including due diligence review, drafting transaction documents, and negotiating and closing transactions), ▪️ drafting and negotiating commercial transactions, ▪️ preparing SEC filings, ▪️ coordinating and taking minutes of the meetings of the Board, and ▪️ collaborating with Human Resources on drafting, interpreting and administering the company's executive compensation plans and related agreements.Served as legal lead for the purchase of a number of small fire services and security bolt-on acquisitions in the U.S., which expanded the company's security business geographically and added capabilities in fire detection and government security services (FIPS/HSPD-12 compliance).Also served as the legal lead in the drafting and negotiation of Diebold’s joint venture in Central America.

Allen, Texas

As noted above, appointed to the board of directors of this Diebold subsidiary by the Diebold CEO to help oversee the company and position it for sale. Also led the legal negotiations for the sale of this business to ES&S in September 2009.

Cleveland, Ohio

Provided general corporate legal advice to public and private-company clients, including on corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, SEC compliance and stock exchange rules.

Charlotte Amalie, Usvi

On a day-to-day basis, advised the Judge on relevant civil and criminal case law and procedure pertinent to ongoing court proceedings. This included researching legal issues, preparing memoranda of law, and drafting court orders and opinions (several of which became published opinions). Attended trials, taking notes of testimony and conducting research on matters arising during the course of the trial. Mediated several small claims cases.

Cleveland, Ohio

Drafted a wide range of pleadings for a busy trial practice specializing in personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, consumer fraud, securities fraud, and class action litigation.

Juris Doctorate (Jd), Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Law Review, AssociateSelf-financed portion of tuition by working 20-30 hours per week (during last two years.

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration (Bsba), International Business/Business Pre-Law

Activities and Societies: Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity; Club SoccerSelf-financed portion of tuition by working 20-30 hours per week (during.

Aerospace Engineering | International Studies

Activities and Societies: Varsity SoccerOne of the State University of New York System (SUNY) campuses.